The quality of your energy is the quality of your life.
Need more energy?
Chakra’s are spinning wheels of energy in your body that can have a significant impact on how you are feeling. They are like radars and sponges. You radiate out energy to others, and your energy is absorbed like a sponge. This has a massive effect on your children. If you are calm, they will reflect this but if you are stressed they will mirror this in their behaviour too. You can become deficient or over active in your energy centres, so you need to balance them.
You have seven main chakras that run from the base of your spine to the crown of your head. Each has a colour, meaning, sense and element connected to it. You can help balance these energies by being mindful of the choice of colour you wear or how you decorate our surroundings.
The colour blue stimulates the chakra in your throat which represents truth and expression and green (and pink) represent the heart chakra which stimulates love and compassion. You can tell your children that blue means you have to tell the truth and that green means loving kindness.
So how can you balance these energies?
Going to a yoga class will help balance your chakras, but if you don’t have time here are some tips from Yoga Mamata to help you feel more balanced.
Heart Chakra
Your heart chakra is located in the centre of your body. To visualise it, imagine a spinning green wheel.
Your heart is the central chakra where heaven and earth meet. It represents love and compassion.
When your heart chakra is balanced you feel energised and are able to give and receive love. You are kind and peaceful.
When this chakra is unbalanced you may lack confidence and be withdrawn, feel isolated, lack empathy and be fearful of intimacy. You may also be narcissistic.
With too much heart chakra energy you may be clingy, over-emotional and demanding. Physical manifestations include stiff shoulders, asthma, immune deficiency and chest pains.
In yoga class there is a sequence of back bends and chest-opening poses that will open up your heart centre. Breathing exercises also balance this chakra, whose associated element is air.
To help balance the throat chakra
Give someone you love a massage.
Laugh out loud.
Breathe deeply.
Hug your child.
Do a loving-kindness meditation.
Get a pink rose quartz crystal for compassion.
Wear a green handbag.
Throat Chakra
Your throat chakra represents purity, truth and communication. Imagine a spinning blue wheel in your throat.
When your throat chakra is balanced you feel inspired and balanced; you say what you mean, and find your inner voice and self-expression. You are patient and listen well.
When this chakra is unbalanced you may not speak up, you hold your breath, criticise and struggle to verbalise your feelings.
If you have too much throat chakra energy you will gossip, dominate, interrupt, talk too much and won’t listen. Physical manifestations may include thyroid issues, acid reflux, unhealthy teeth and gums, and ear infections; toxins will build up if you do not speak your truth.
In yoga, we activate this chakra when we do a shoulder stand or lift our neck or back up in a pose. Reading philosophical texts, and about cultures and powerful ideas also opens and unblocks this chakra.
To help balance the throat chakra
Have a facial.
Find your voice.
Sing or chant “Aum”.
Learn the art of listening.
Listen to stories or classical music.
Wear blue eyeliner.
Find your mindful moment a day …
– Book in for some kinesiology or acupuncture.
– Use a salt lamp to purify your home
– Indulge in a chakra-balancing massage.
– Buy some mala beads with a chakra-balancing crystal.
– Block your right nostril and breathe through your left nostril to feel calm.
– Go to a yoga class
